TY - JOUR
AU1 - Sherman, David K.
AU2 - Kinias, Zoe
AU3 - Major, Brenda
AU4 - Kim, Heejung S.
AU5 - Prenovost, Mary
AB - Self-affirmation theory proposes that people can respond to threats to the self by affirming alternative sources of self-integrity, resulting in greater openness to self-threatening information. The present research examines this at a group level by investigating whether a group affirmation (affirming an important group value) increases acceptance of threatening group information among sports teams and fans. In Study 1, athletes exhibited a group-serving attributional bias, which was eliminated by the group affirmation. In Study 2, the most highly identified fans exhibited the most bias in terms of their attributions, and this bias was eliminated by the group affirmation. These studies suggest that groups can serve as resources from which people can draw in response to threatening group events.
TI - The Group as a Resource: Reducing Biased Attributions for Group Success and Failure via Group Affirmation
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
DO - 10.1177/0146167207303027
DA - 2007-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-group-as-a-resource-reducing-biased-attributions-for-group-success-tX0KBtCcO3
SP - 1100
EP - 1112
VL - 33
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -